Sentences with phrase «say billions of people»

You compare these stats to the amount of people who are straight and have a good life and you will see something like 60 percent of say billions of people.

Not exact matches

If, say, you have children and you want regulation to protect them from the rising sea levels predicted to submerge billions of homes, wars over resources, and so on, you have to realize that however much we call politicians leaders, in democracies they follow the people.

Chesky said the company had 77,000 homes across Africa — out of its 3 million globally — but that it could easily have «hundreds of thousands» in a continent that's home to over a billion people.

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

It has already secured up to several billion dollars of financing from Chinese state - controlled banks, including the China Development Bank, for the project, which Mexico estimates will cost $ 10 billion over 10 years, one of the people said.

One person familiar with the matter said that a group of investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic would be allowed to buy $ 1 billion to $ 1.25 billion of new Uber shares at a company valuation of $ 69 billion and 14 to 17 % of stock from current investors at a discounted valuation.

«People are selling billions of dollars worth a month now on the platform — which is crazy,» he said in an interview on Tuesday after second - quarter results sent the stock up another 13 percent to a new record.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has touted Starlink's reach, saying it could bring 5G - like service to billions around the world while also handling up to 10 percent of the internet traffic in more congested regions «where people are stuck with Time Warner or Comcast.»

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is considering a sale - and - leaseback of its new European headquarters in London and the building could sell for more than 1 billion pounds ($ 1.4 billion), people with knowledge of the plan said.

Oculus, the virtual reality company Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, said on Wednesday that over one million people have used the Samsung Gear VR headset in April, which indicates that consumer use of virtual reality technology is growing.

If the bank paid a rent of about 70 pounds a square foot — the going rate for new offices in the City of London district — the building would be worth about 1.5 billion pounds assuming a yield of 4 percent, the people said.

«After Facebook reached its milestone of helping to connect one billion people, we took a step back and said, «What problem can we solve next?»»

The media startup, valued at $ 11 billion in its latest round of funding, says the number of «pinners,» or people sharing images and links, has doubled on its platform in the last 18 months and the number of searches on its service have increased by 81 % over the last year.

Ma says part of his strategy for growing the company is to continue expanding into developing countries — countries where approximately 6.5 billion people don't use e-commerce today.

Cross contends that Facebook's chat service is easier to use than competing services because of its similarity to Facebook Messenger, which he said is used by 1.3 billion people monthly to communicated with each other.

GGP, one of the largest owners and operators of U.S. shopping centers, has rejected a $ 14.8 billion buyout offer from its biggest shareholder, Brookfield Property Partners LP, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Dell has also made progress in syndicating $ 10 billion of its financing package for the EMC acquisition dubbed «term loan A», people familiar with the situation said earlier.

The fundraising is continuing and Blackstone already has commitments totaling in excess of $ 17.5 billion, which is the fund's hard cap, or fundraising limit, the people said on Thursday, asking not to be identified because the fundraising process is confidential.

EBay's vice president of seller experience, Jordan Sweetnam, said in a statement that the acquisition would serve eBay in its efforts to «unlock the value» of the «billions of dollars worth of unwanted and unused items in people's possession.»

Private equity firm Carlyle Group is exploring a sale or initial public offering of Ortho - Clinical Diagnostics Inc, a U.S. diagnostics company that could be valued at more than $ 7 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said.

Verizon, the biggest U.S. wireless carrier, is seeking to challenge AT&T, the second largest U.S. wireless provider, in the third round of bidding, even though its latest offer was at the low end of the $ 3.5 billion to $ 5 billion range of the second - round bids that came in last week, the people said.

Joost van Dreunen, CEO of Superdata Research, says there were over 2.1 billion people playing mobile games globally this September.

The number of people living with diabetes has tripled since 2000, pushing the global cost of the disease to $ 850 billion a year, medical experts said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON / BEIJING, March 13 (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to impose tariffs on up to $ 60 billion of Chinese imports and will target the technology and telecommunications sectors, two people who had discussed the issue with the Trump administration said on Tuesday.

Chu is joining a record $ 5.2 billion deal to buy most of a Hong Kong skyscraper from Li Ka - Shing's company, people familiar with the matter said last month.

«He's made billions by coming in, buying low, cutting jobs and throwing people out of work, then selling,» Hargrove said.

«A lot of entrepreneurial people want more entrepreneurial opportunities than life at a company with a value of $ 9 billion can offer,» Litan says.

«To feed 9 billion people we're going to need everybody,» says Sonya McCullum Roberts, president of growth ventures at Cargill.

As secretary, Price criticized the Medicaid health program for low - income people, saying it doesn't deliver results commensurate with the hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayers spend on it.

He says that artificial intelligence combined with data gathered by billions of sensors will bring on an «information revolution,» that will benefit people more than the 19th century Industrial Revolution.

The ensuing rush of fresh talent, including stunt master Devin Super Tramp, singer Sam Tsui, and science geek Emily Graslie, has been good for YouTube, which says more than 1 billion people worldwide visit the site on a monthly basis, up 25 percent from the previous year.

The 100 richest people in China were worth $ 450 billion, Forbes said, up nearly 20 percent in a year — far faster than current GDP growth of 6.9 percent and despite a rout on Chinese stock markets.

Snapchat Inc., the company that makes a mobile application for disappearing photo messages, is in talks with investors including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for a round of financing that may value the company at $ 10 billion, people with knowledge of the situation said.

This caricature of a system that doles out unique scores to 1.4 billion people could not work technically nor politically, says Rogier Creemers, a scholar of Chinese law at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in the Netherlands.

iQiyi is aiming for a public market valuation of as much as $ 10 billion, people familiar with the matter said.

People say John Mauldin has a «billion - dollar Rolodex» of contacts in Washington and on Wall Street.

A person with knowledge of the matter said earlier this year it will be about $ 5 billion.

Elliott holds $ 2.9 billion of Energy Future's secured and unsecured debt, enough to try to block the reorganization plan with Berkshire, the people said.

People are very happy,» said Eddie Brown, chairman and CEO of Brown Capital Management, where assets under management grew to $ 7 billion from $ 4.5 billion, contributing to the company's best year since he founded it in 1983.

«ZenCity can impact the lives of billions of people,» said Emanuel Timor, general partner at Vertex Ventures.

HONG KONG, April 12 U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC is in talks to invest in a fundraising round for China's Ant Financial Services Group that is expected to be worth at least $ 8 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.

HONG KONG Hong Kong - based private equity firm PAG is planning a new Asia fund that aims to raise as much as $ 6 billion, two people with knowledge of the plan said, potentially adding to a massive pool of buyout money for acquisitions in the region.

Bank of America has discussed paying about $ 12 billion, including more than $ 5 billion to help struggling homeowners, to resolve a range of federal and state probes, primarily into whether the company and its units defrauded mortgage bond investors in the run - up to the financial crisis, people familiar with the matter said.

DJI booked about 5 billion yuan in profit last year, said one of the people with knowledge of the fundraising.

Uber told stockholders that gross bookings, the key yardstick of demand for ride services, rose 11 percent to $ 9.71 billion in the period that ended in September, compared with $ 8.74 billion in the second quarter, said the people.

Wells Fargo reduced BreitBurn's borrowing base to $ 1.8 billion and agreed to maintain that credit limit through April 2016 as part of that EIG deal, the people said.

Cohen, who typically manages $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion in what is known as the Cohen Account, has cut his trading to the lower end of that range and has given more money to deputies who help him run the portfolio, three of the people said.

Nobody is going to give us $ 5,000 because on a teeny little base, suppose we got 10 people to say, «gee, this is great, we'll ensure 10 billion dollars worth of bonds,» we'd end up with $ 50,000, and then the bonds would go under and people would come to us for insurance.

SAC employees expect clients to say they will take back most of the $ 4 billion they haven't already marked for redemptions by early next year, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.